Technical Summary
This document defines two Management Information Base (MIB) modules that
contain Textual Conventions to represent commonly used Bidirectional
Forwarding Detection (BFD) management information. The intent is
that these TEXTUAL CONVENTIONS (TCs) will be imported and used in BFD
related MIB modules that would otherwise define their own
representations.
Working Group Summary
This document received commentary from multiple individuals that have had
prior SNMP MIB authoring and implementation experience. The document was
also reviewed in the context of additional BFD work besides providing
base MIB functionality for the above RFCs. This includes BFD
multi-point, BFD over LAG. It also has been reviewed as being the basis
MIB for the BFD MPLS MIB.
Document Quality
As is typical with MIB documents, several vendors implement the contents
of the BFD MIB in various enterprise MIBs with greater or lesser
attention paid to the exact structure of this document. MIBs are seldom
fully finished at vendors until the publication of the MIB as an RFC
wherein all the code points are finalized with IANA and other
authorities.
In particular, the Textual-Convention draft covers various TCs that do
not share consistent implementations across the vendors. By publishing
an RFC, these code points will become normalized across the vendors.
Being a MIB document, review by the MIB doctors is always appreciated.
Personnel
Document Shepherd: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org>
Responsible AD: Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk>